Fernanda Ferreira is an oceanographer with more than five years of experience in environmental projects and research on ocean and climate change in Brazil and in Portugal.

With a Bachelor’s Degree from the Rio de Janeiro State University and an exchange period at Memorial University of Newfoundland, her experience ranges from chemical oceanography to ocean instrumentation. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Law and Economics of the Sea – Ocean Governance at NOVA School of Law, in which she will focus on how financial instruments can help safeguard the ocean and support Portugal in achieving its ocean and climate commitments.

As part of her internship at the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere – IPMA, she has been involved in studying how carbon behaves in the deep sea and in supporting the development of methodologies for deep-sea ocean accounting.

She is also a member of the NOVA Ocean Knowledge Centre of the NOVA School of Law and a researcher at CEDMAR/USP – the Centre for Studies on the Law of the Sea at the University of São Paulo.